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A lot of it is just fake work. There was already a bunch of fake work before AI. Now there's even more fake work. Organizations tend to produce more and more of it. The general imp…

> When I’m not severely depressed I’m able to do two four hours blocks separated by a break in a day, and maybe squeeze out an extra hour or two on a fantastic day. I do the same t…

Personally I'm pretty excited for the future. I feel like LLMs make reading papers way easier than what it is before. If I ever run into a roadblock, I can just keep digging and pr…

> There's a much more reasonable explanation here.. tech jobs had the most wage growth during COVID and this was a pullback. More concretely, companies do layoffs, visa workers hav…

> There will be a window where fast adopting AI companies can deliver features faster than peers The fundamental problem is having people doing the right things. Lines of code does…

We're in a big interconnected social system. If you're landing changes, it's dependent on the internal tooling, internal documentation, and the broader social system that you're a …

> as far as I know, all the math breakthroughs via AI that I've heard about have come from Anthropic and OpenAI, not Chinese models Maybe because dishonesty is more normalized in S…

> Microsoft has to be shaking Their stock hasn't really seen much upside from this whole AI thing, so I don't really see how they'd get punished that badly. At least they have a pu…

I don't think big tech is going to be hurt that much. Or if they hurt, it will be for unrelated business reasons like ad spend going down. Maybe capacity spend will go down for the…

the market is like a ponzi scheme, it depends on when you got in

Alphabet's business is in information retrieval, they're probably the only company out of all of them where the defensive AI play is justified

Don't join amazon, especially as a first job. The reason being, there is usually a shit ton of political stuff going on which you won't see as a new grad. The general way companies…

Imo this will be the future model: a company puts a gun to your head, gives you agents, and tells you to figure out how to maximize the utility output you provide as an employee. T…

My plan is to just stay in the game as long as possible and bag as much money as possible. Delay family formation (gen z) or buying property so that the money is liquid. Job hop as…

for some reason, stripe owns this magazine

Zerohedge is probably more reliable at this point

I'm kind of confused. It's not clear to me how or why the line keeps going up. People are spending less because of economic insecurity, everything is more expensive because of tari…

Yeah, he cut headcount, zuck saw an opening, now threads took a bunch of market share (and probably has a better monetization system in place). Once a company gets bloated, it's pr…

Nick Land already predicted this

> Maybe we were already oversupplied with talent. In which case why the heck were we still hiring more, more, more developers? Before the AI craze, Musk chopped an awful lot of hea…

This corporate messaging of "just use AI, cut as many corners as possible, only retain the essential people and force them to sling slop 7 days a week" is unsustainable. It's wrong…

> management clearly have no idea how to tell which people are actually working they probably do, it's just a matter of incentives, i.e. "It is difficult to get a man to understand…

I think it increases the amount of enjoyment, there's less semantic language specific stuff to deal with and you can spend more time on the core task. I think from my perspective a…

I don't think it's purposeful from a company leadership perspective. Imo what I've seen happen is it's just empire building. Say you're a billionaire CEO and you have a bunch of mo…